Mill No More

Awful news from Rotherham United today that confirms that they will not be playing at Millmoor next season. Instead the club will play their games in Sheffield at the Don Valley Stadium.

The Don Valley Stadium is normally used for athletics and rugby league. It has also been used for concerts and gameshows (Channel 4's "The Game") in the past as well. It looks totally unsuitable for Rotherham. Wrong city, not big enough and has an athletics track around it - which never helps the atmosphere as anyone who has been to the Withdean will tell you!

I have only ever visited Millmoor once. It was on the first day of the season in Cardiff City's first game back in the second flight about five years ago (the game ended 0-0). It was almost certainly the hottest game I have ever been at. Standing in the away end at Millmoor (it is seated but Cardiff fans aren't sitters) under a corrugated iron roof was akin to being in an oven.

Good luck to Rotherham United. Things can surely only get better now. Surely!